Soon, the entire shallow water area of ​​the harbor was full of soldiers standing in the water, holding shields in both hands, some of whom had no armor, and they all struggled to trek on the pier and square. The Rhodes were desperate. They abandoned the walls and commanding heights that could cover and suppress the harbor, and were attacked by two legions outside the city of Kasio. Many people were patrolling the open space between the new walls and the acropolis, looking for their own city law enforcement officers.

Law enforcement officer Clierkus was found in front of the woodland outside the Acropolis, when he was commanding a group of people to assemble larger catapults to resist the towed attack of the Kasio fleet, but he was soon surrounded by many elders, nobles and officers, asking him that "Now Kamilos is close to falling, and it is time for glorious surrender."

"Is this the collective wish of the state? But you have to know that even if Kasio got the city of Camillos, it would be difficult for him to win the subsequent confrontation with the Roman high priest. If we surrender here, all our efforts will be wasted. Don't wait for the high priest to come, and our state's tax and independence rights will be deprived." The law enforcement officer asked everyone.

This question made everyone silent again. The law enforcement officer then looked at the situation around him and continued to say to everyone in a low voice, "In my opinion, I will send an envoy to negotiate first, expressing my willingness to cede land and pay compensation, and talk to Kassi for everything, delaying time; in addition, we will concentrate the remaining supplies and money and withdraw to the acropolis to continue to defend."

Several elders expressed concern about this kind of way to play with fire on tightropes, but for this moment, the advice of the law enforcement officer seems to have become the only feasible way to protect the state. Who said that Rhode Islanders have been seeking small states between powers of all parties for a hundred years?

In the harbor, among the wreckage and corpses of ships floating everywhere, a small boat carrying envoys, carrying the flag of peace, boarded the flagship of Kasio, expressing his willingness to ced Rhodes, Camillos and other ports that are connected to the sea, and handed over all the remaining ten large ships with decks and corners to Kasio (the Rhodes cunningly hid them in caves by the sea), and promised to provide Kasio with ten new ships and corresponding oarsmen every year for the next three years. Finally, the envoy was willing to sign a treaty of 300 tarantes on behalf of the state.

"If you give me all these words, Rhode Islanders, what will you leave for yourself?" Kasio laughed wildly and asked the envoy.

"We would rather return to the mountains in the middle of the island and live a life of logging and grazing. We can protect our gods, and women and children are enough." The envoys begged to Kasio in a begging tone.

"Don't use this set to deceive me. I am also the commander of the navy of Rome. I know the cunning of you seamen, and your promises are as changeable as the sea itself." Kassio said loudly. "Now don't say a word before me, and immediately hand over the thirty noble hostages, and then hand over the last acropolis and all the strongholds and granaries of the whole city before sunset. Otherwise, I will destroy the entire city of Camillos, like your beloved pseudo-high priest, and turn the state of Rhodes into ashes."

The envoys were panicked and fled under Kasio's rebuke. Then the messenger stood on the deck one by one. Kasio deployed orders to them: "This is a trick of pseudo-reduction and delaying time. Ignore them. I ordered the two legions outside the city to step up their attack on the new walls of Kamillos, and strive to destroy and capture them all in the dusk, and draw out three more brigades to come to the harbor to reinforce me."

Sure enough, after half a day, the Rhodes people gathered all the remaining strength into the acropolis, raising fires to continue to resist, while the rest of the old and weak were thrown to the walls, crying loudly, and many of the priests had already taken poison in the city temple to harm themselves, and their bodies were lying in the palaces.

On the side of the siege position near the sea, several centurions and civilian guards in Kasio were commanding reinforcements to board the deck of the transport ship. "Hurry up, now the sun has set west, and the commander does not have so much time. We have to seize this vital city before the enemy gets support. As long as the situation is defeated, the situation will become beneficial to us."

After a while, about thirty transport ships, carrying one thousand two hundred soldiers, sailed towards about six Romans, at the other harbours on the cape, when the sun had already fallen behind all their ships, with golden light on the masts and sails.

The monotonous sound of water, the monotonous paddling and drumming sounds, among the light refracted on the sea, the navigator at the forefront had seen the mountains and birds in front of the port of Camillos, "ready to turn the rudder."

At this moment, there was a commotion on the deck. On the cliff at the opposite cape, several transport ships were surrounded by soldiers, and the shields hanging on the side of the ship were shining.

"Play out the flag words, make out the flag words, ask about their identities." The navigator was very panicked. Although he had learned the answer, he still did not give up.

After the other navigators waved the flags in their hands, the fleet was still sailing forward in a daze, as if their goal was just to arrive at the port and they were completely blind to their own side.

"Bastard, bastard, beat him!" As the navigator roared, the bowstring of the crossbow on the deck of the ship stretched out, and the stone bullet flew over and hit the stern of a parallel ship opposite. Several soldiers there were killed and injured, and then they started to curse. At this moment, the navigator could see clearly that it was all mixed with Italian dialect in Gaul dialect, and the shield logo floating on the sea water fell over there was a white elephant. It was clear that the group of soldiers were undoubtedly the enemy's Fifth Skylark Legion.

The Fifth Legion was unambiguous. When they found out that the enemy was actually the enemy, they also used the small stone thrower or scorpion crossbow on their ships to start a fire. The two sides approached each other in front of the narrow waterway of the harbor shipwreck. Because there were no layered cabins and decks, the paddlers stood up, poked and slapped each other on each other's long oars, and the infantry soldiers on both sides also swayed and got up, jumping and slashing between the adjacent ships, falling into the water, and groaning on the deck everywhere.

Soon, before the fortification, many transport ships quickly sank, completely blocking the waterway, but the fleets of both sides continued to make no concessions and fought in chaos.
Chapter completed!